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Strong earthquake, 6.9 mag strikes near Sarangani in Philippines

Posted by admin on January 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 3.7S, 126.9WA earthquake magnitude 6.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 246 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines (153 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Sarangani in Philippines (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 00:38:13 / 12:38 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: at00o0srjp, pt16011050. Unique identifier: at00o0srjp. The epicenter was at a depth of 102 km (63 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/01/16 / 2016-01-11 16:38:13 / January 11, 2016 @ 4:38 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.9 East, latitude 3.7 North, depth = 102 km.

Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 246 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.9° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.7° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 102 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 246km SE of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-11 16:38:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-11 16:48:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status REVIEWED Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 1 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 732 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at,pt, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.03540735 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43.2 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00o0srjp Id of event.
Event Code 00o0srjp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00o0srjp,pt16011050, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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